1. USA Today, October 9, 2014

3. A complete current lifetable (partial)

4. Some data for creating an abridged current life table.
data lifetable88;/*data are from 1988*/
input agegrp $ rate;
label age="Age Group"
rate="Death rate per 1,000";
datalines; ;
proc print data=lifetable88 noobs;
run;

5. CurrentAbridgedLifetableSimplified.xlsx

6. data lifetable88a;
set lifetable88;
retain numalive;
if _n_=1 then numalive=100000;
numdths=round(numalive*rate/1000);
numalive=sum(numalive,-lag(numdths));
run;
proc print data=lifetable88a noobs;run;